have a great weekend. is it a happy birthday for healthcare? this is "special report." ♪ ♪ good evening. i'm chris wallace in for bret baier. president obama's signature legislation, obamacare is two years old today. the re-election campaign is touting the achievement with mailers and phone calls to supporters. but chief white house correspondent ed henry explai explains why the president isn't going to his own party. >> he said this is a big bleeping deal. today, not so much. >> two years ago, it was not just vice president biden celebrating the signing of healthcare reform. today on the second

anniversary, president obama was not ready to go on what was supposed to be the signature domestic achievement. he held a rose garden event, to nominate the new president of the world bank, dr. jim kim. in unusual move, president who dislikes shouting questions took one about the shooting death of martin. >> a little surprised there wasn't a birthday cake there to celebrate the second anniversary of obamacare. we have all noticed that not a lot is said about the new law. >> a lot is said, but by republicans from a birthday banner at the rnc to a new add from a conservative group run by former aides to house majority leader eric cantor showing uncle sam at the doctor. >> liberals in congress put government bureaucrats between you and your doctor. >> jay carney insists white house is not ducking political liability. noting healthcare was featured in major campaign film. >> he knew he couldn't fix the economy if he didn't fix healthcare. >> carney charged republicans are trying to distract from

the fact that if they repeal the law, they have no plan to fix the system. >> would you have it be the way it was before when insurance companies could throw you off if you got sick? they have no answer to that. this is not a debate we will shy away from. >> ahead of monday's argument, the president faces skeptical public. fox news polling shows little change in the last two years in the high percentage of the public that wants to repeat the whole law or parts of it. despite presidential promises the more people were educated the law the more they would like it. >> i'll engage a great campaign from one end of the country to the other, telling americans with insurance or without insurance what they stand to gain. >> on monday when the supreme court kicks things off, the president will be quiet again. democratic groups will be out in full force on his behalf.

defending a law under fire. >> more on this with the panel. thank you. >> 20 delegates will be awarded in tomorrow's louisiana primary. that state's party chairman says something else is at stake. perception of momentum. chief political correspondent carl cameron has more. >> leading polls in louisiana, rick santorum worked in shooting practice, then targeted the 2-year anniversary of the affordable care act for double barrel plast at obamacare and g.o.p. front runner mitt romney. >> it's a disastrous bill that is patterned after another disastrous bill, romneycare. >> romney focused on president obama's law, not his. >> they don't a big ceremony going on, the president is not giving speeches of obamacare. that is for a reason. most americans want to get rid of it. we're among the americans. >> this is the anniversary of obamacare. obamacare does to health what obama has done to the drilling industry of louisiana. it's strangle it in paperwork. >> santorum's complained for a week that romney would be no better as president than

mr. obama. notion that newt gingrich is now trashing. >> to suggest a romney presidency would not be dramatically better for any conservative than obama presidency just plain wrong. >> santorum today signaled he will back the g.o.p. standard bearer if he is not the one. >> vote for whoever the republican nominee or work for him. >> romney aides accused santorum continuing a hopeless campaign to position for another run in 2016. santorum seemed to admit it. comparing himself to a candidate who lost in the '70s but won in the '80s. >> if you school board ronald reagan whether he wanted to win the '76 campaign, he did everything he could in the convention to try to win it, because he understood a moderate couldn't win. >> the latest louisiana polls have santorum up double digits over romney. gingrich fading. the real clear politics average of the louisiana polls is similar. overall, front runner romney has a commanding lead of the race to the needed 1144 nominating delegates. gingrich now cast himself, santorum and ron paul as romney spoilers as best. >> this is either romney or an

open convention. santorum is not going to get to 1144. i'm not going to get to 1144. ron paul is not getting to 1144. >> gingrich raised eyebrows if asked that he is concerned that the polls show a sizable number thinks the president is muslim. >> it should bother the muslim. why does the president behave in a way that people would think that? you have to ask why do they believe that? not because they're stupid. white house expects romney to be the nominee. the vice president took a shot for backing the g.o.p. federal budget plan. >> governor romney supports what they call the cut, cap and balance. >> biden said romney and the g.o.p. plan would cut the social security, cap taxes on millionaires and balance the cost of it on the backs of the middle class. the obama-biden re-election campaign is kicking up attack on romney bit. chris? >> carl cameron on the campaign trail in new orleans. thank you for that. president obama spoke out today about an incident that

has become a national outrage. the killing of martin, unarmed teenager by neighborhood volunteer claiming it was self-defense. they look at the impassioned word and what is done to quell the rage. >> following days of urging, president obama addressed the shooting death of treavon martin, the unarmed high schooler killed by zimmerman, suspicious neighborhood watch coord nowhere in -- coordinator. >> if i had a son he would look like martin. i think they are right to expect that all of us as americans are going to take it with seriousness that it deserves and get to the bottom of what happened. >> zimmerman claimed self-defense and has not been

charged. >> the parents of martin joined by 5,000 people today at a rally for justice led by al sharpton demanding the shooter be arrested. >> are we stupid? we love our children like you love yours. >> no justice. >> no peace. >> protest and marches continue across the country. >> a day after the florida police chief stepped down, they assigned two cops to run the controversy for now. controversy drawn in presidential candidates commented on sim zerman and the law. >> what he was doing had nothing to do with the law people were talking about. the law involved somebody coming at you. he was trailing the young man. >> the fact that law enforcement didn't immediately do after to prosecute the case is a chilling example of horrible decisions made by

people in the process. >> inappropriate for the district attorney. to look into this and call a grand jury to find out what the facts are. >> one of ten miami area school walk-outs today, students formed a big t.m. on the football field. >> florida governor getting involved and appointing a special prosecutor to come down from jacksonville to investigate the case. statewide citizen task force will review the controversy stand your ground law in florida that allows someone to shoot someone else if the shooter feels legitimately threatened. bret -- chris, rather. >> close enough. this story isn't going anywhere. today, the american soldier accused of gunning down sleeping afghan civilians chargecharged with 17 counts of murder. national security correspondent jennifer griffin

is at the pentagon with the latest on staff sergeant robert bales. >> a military officer read the charges to staff sergeant robert bales at maximum security prison in forth worth, kansas. 17 counts of premedicated murder, six counts of aggravateded assault and attempted murder. charges that could carry the death penalty. bales lawyer says his client is still in shock. >> he didn't know nature of the specific allegations when i met with him. >> also difficult, the facts of the case. of the 23 afghans targeted 13 were children, some of them toddlers. of the six wounded who could serve as witnesses four are children. >> this is a difficult case to prove. there is no crime scene or dna or fingerprints. it's interesting to see how to prove this.

>> the defense said they will not prove insanity. the criteria is you didn't know the difference between right and wrong or you didn't know the actions were wrong. we know that bales in minutes of committing the acts called his wife and said something terrible has happened. >> many experts on brain injuries say post traumatic stress doesn't typically lead to violence. >> there has been a tendency to lump together ptsd and tbi, dramatic brain injury because they sound the same. but they are very different disorders. ptsd, post traumatic stress disorder typically does not lead to violence. it's anxiety disorder. so the kind of violence that it leads to most often research shows is violence against the self. >> many advocates for destigma tiding post traumatic stress fear it will be a setback for public understanding of ptsd and dramatic brain injuries. 50,000 u.s. soldiers have served four tours in combat.

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affidavit the gun is for them. otherwise it's a felony. march 2010, bought eight weapons at the store and claimed they were for himself. two days later he found the gun in manuel's car. the a.t.f. arrested neither. in fact, agents allowed him to lie on the application. spending over $300,00,000 on fod stamps. they stopped accosta at the mexican border with ammunition and nine cell phones in his car. still, the a.t.f. led him go. why? the agency claimed it wanted the big fish in mexico buying the guns. unknown to them, the fish worked for f.b.i. >> the identity of eduardo had been kept secret until now. documents they say the f.b.i. never told the a.t.f. >> one agency works hard to

get information. they worked as informant for police in miami. the marshall service and dea before the f.b.i. have sources that believe they spent $250,000 on fast and furious guns. two-third of which are still missing. >> you are getting to the basis of our investigation. i will have to wait until i get the information before we bring down the hammer. >> asked about the role of informants in fast and furious, f.b.i. said they can't provide additional information even if inaccuracies are reported because of a pending investigation. we know the f.b.i. did brief the atf 11 months, hundreds of guns after fast and furious began. in los angeles, william la jeunesse, fox news. in world headlines, the european union slapped sanctions on the wife, mother and several other relatives of syrian president bashar assad. in today's fighting amateur video show what is appears to be more shelling of unarmed civilians. russian president dmitry medvedev has warned the u.s.

-led nato missile defense plan will break nuclear parity with moscow and force russia to respond. washington says the nato missile shield is aimed at potential threat from nations like iran. french authorities say there is no sign that gunman that went on a killing spree in the country had ties to al-qaeda. 23-year-old morah was killed in a dramatic gun fight with police yesterday after 32-hour standoff. he killed seven people. armed pilots are the last line of defense against a terrorist attack on an airplane. the program to train them is in danger of disappearing. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge looks at what is happening and why. >> pilot packing heat may soon be a relative 9/11 as the white house seeks to cut the $25 million budget in half for the federal flight training program. >> the obama administration has had institutional hos

stillty toward the concept -- hostility toward the concept of arming pilots since the beginning. >> panel hosted today, supporters of the volunteering program that trains the pilot, copilot and navigators to handle and carry handguns say it's cheaper than checking a single suitcase. >> to protect an aircraft, to protect possibly the potential of thousands of people, the federal flight deck officer costs $15 per flight. >> one pilot warned history might repeat itself, ralling they carried funs in the '90s. >> we lost 3,000 americans. we learned that is a horrial, horrible experiment. >> homeland security officials argue that the multilayer approach to airline security relying on 100% passenger and

cargo screening, reinforced cockpit doors is more effective. >> the reduction for the federal flight deck officer program is predicated on the fact that the program is not risk based. >> as for the further comment, homeland security directed fox to the 2013 budget that shows they will focus on the program to mitigate highest risk at lowest cost. in washington, catherine herridge, fox news. still ahead, why critics of obama care may have to temper their hopes when the law goes before the supreme court. first, what sparked a nationwide rally? choose control. introducing gold choice. the freedom you can only get from hertz to keep the car you reserved or simply choose another. and it's free. ya know, for whoever you are that day.

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wednesday. >> thousands of americans of all faith took part in the nationwide rally for religious freedom. they're protesting a new government mandate they feel goes against their morals and violates the first amendment. religious correspondent lauren green has more. >> voices raised for religious freedom as protesters in 140 cities across the nation rallied against healthcare mandate. on the step of the historic hall. hundreds gathered for fundamental right they say the law threatens. >> our own government engages in the same sort of impression that led our nation settleers to flee their homeland. >> the core issue, obama requirement that all employers, even religious employers cover contraception and other that violate the teaching and relief. >> the women who work are 100%

behind the policy. now under the h.h.s. mandate we'll be forced to pay for abortion and contraception. >> the crowd cheered in the reading by a letter of dolan leading the fight against the mandate. >> religious freedom is under attack. we will not cease in our struck to protect it. >> critics say this fight against the healthcare mandate is a misguided take against religious freedom that opens the door to religious loophole. >> if they can say we don't cover contraception, the johavis witness can say we don't cover surgery. and scientologists can say we don't cover psychiatric care because we don't believe in that. >> rally organizers say what is at stake is the first amendment free exercise of religion. they hope to send a message to

the supreme court justices who will hear challenges to the healthcare law next week. in new york, lauren green, fox news. the obama administration released guidelines for wind farms today aimed to reduce bird deaths. a bird advocacy group says the guidelines will do little. hundreds of thousands of birds are killed each year by wind turbines. utah signed a bill demanded that they give the state back, millions of acres of land by 2014. supporters say they could develop the land for profit. national park military installation an native american reservations are exempt. president obama gets good marriage advice. etch-a-sketch cashes in on a campaign gaffe. grapevine is next. ♪

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secret for staying married for 79 years. >> you should know what it is. >> you do what you do. >> you compromise. [ laughter ] >> compromise. wise words indeed. ♪ now our top story at the bottom of the hour, washington is bracing for fireworks when the supreme court takes healthcare case on monday. you see that people are lining up for tickets to get in the court. there are serious questions will the law will see its way to the third birthday. correspondent shannon bream has a preview. >> it's been debated for months, there are things that most americans don't know about the legal challenge to the president's healthcare law. which will be argueded before the supreme court starting monday. first, justices may not get to the merit of the case.

day one of the argument is dedicated to determining whether the case is right, or whether the justices must wait for someone to pay a penalty for not complying with the mandate that every american carry insurance. >> the anti-injunction act, argument that we wait until someone pays the tax. to claim they should get the money back. >> it doesn't sit well with john nicholson. he says because of the uncertainty over the healthcare law he stopped hiring. >> i hope the supreme court has sense not to delay the decision for four years or whatever, until the final taxation comes to effect. >> medicate expansion. under the law, the states will have to prepare to add millions to their medicaid

role. >> if you look at that, we get $10 billion a year. toward our medicaid program. the federal government is saying hey, florida, if you don't participate in this, we are taking away every sense of that money. >> those who believe the court will find medicaid expansion constitutional it's not the constitutional buster the states make it out to be. >> they will put it at the front of the program and tapers to whopping 90% still. this is a great deal for the state. >> an opinion is expected by the end of the term in late june. they called attorneys back for the argue in the rare cases. >> in what is a friday

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the president is very proud of the work that congress did and his administration did to make this 100%-year quest a reality. >> the reason the american people like the law less than they did two years ago is nothing, essentially that was promised is occurring and will occur. >> republican senate leader mitch mcconnell and jay

carney with different reactions to the second anniversary of the passage of obamacare. time to bring in the panel. charles lane of the "washington post." aaron mcpike from real clear politics and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. chuck is the resident supreme court watcher. the court will have three days of hearing next week and they won't decide this from june. but what is the sense of what the justices will do. strike down part of the law, uphold it or decide this hasn't gone in effect. they haven't begun the mandat mandate. >> this is hard to predict. but it's wrong to suppose they want to dump the case or find a way around it, unless they find it unavoidable. they have taken issues including one on the show earlier, medicaid and the role of the state that seemed to many people they weren't interested because there

hasn't been a lower court division. they have assumed a lot of authority, power by granting the issues and deciding to decide them. i say expect them to do something sweeping, whatever they will do. >> bret: come down one way or the other. sweeping more the law or against the law? >> put it this way, i think they have already decided this is a much closer question than a lot of the supporters of the law made it out to be. merely by signaling they want to spend this much time discussing it. discussing so many issues. >> bret. >> let me pick up on that with you, charles. this is not a slam dunk. lower court split. some for obamacare and some against it. some supreme court experts, in a 1942 case seemed to go in either direction, depending how you interpret it. what is your sense of how the court will go on this? >> the sense i have is the fact that the court has taken

this, and the fact that it's allocating three days, which is a the most for any case in half a century, any case they understand is a crossroads and argument of those against the bill is that if you can compel a citizen under the individual mandate to enter into individual citizen, compelled by the government. with a private company, there are no limits what a government can make a citizen do under the commerce clause. there is a change in the nature of the contract. it used to be or we imagine ourselves enumerated powers. congress allowed to do "x," "y," "z." if you allow this unlimited expansion of the commerce clause, then congress and the president, federal government is a powerful. what is left is for the

individual for element of civil society to carve out areas of autonomy. that is a huge change. so they intend to make a big decision. they understand how much hinges on the way it comes out. >> your gut is they decide to limit it or to let it go? >> like other issues it will depend what side of the bench justice kennedy arises on that morning. >> that does make him the swing vote, doesn't it? >> the ultimate. or the king. >> erin, it's interesting that the president didn't say a word about this, the signature accomplishment of his term in office on the second anniversary. what made him more interesting he announced his nominee for the world bank. he never takes question on other subjects. annoyed but took one on martin and it seemed to a lot of people like it was a planted

question. that a white house press secretary talked to reporter. not a word on healthcare. all of the republican nominees fall all over themselves to talk about how they repeal the obamacare. the country hasn't rallied. >> no, they haven't. but i point out there is a lot of criticism about president obama because he chose to go to healthcare first rather than do much about the economy or jobs. in this case, he is not having anniversary event but he is focusing on other things. that's something that the white house might tell you now. as far as the question he did take, president obama avoids talking about race. most of the time. in this case, he felt a personal connection to it -- >> let me stop you here. we'll talk about trevon martin in the next segment. chuck, let me pick up on this. do you agree with the premise

that the country, two years later has not rallied around obamacare? >> it's proven in the polls. the polling data is consistent. that most people seem to oppose the law. want it repealed. the most unpopular provision is the individual mandate that is up for grabs at the supreme court. you ask me before which way they might go, but it's more likely than otherwise be, that they would strike down the individual mandate because the court understands they wouldn't be roundly criticized for it. a lot of people would be happy. to pick up on one thing that charles said and disagree slightly, what is doing on here is the power of the federal government. states still could order you to buy insurance from this or that. that is an important thing to underscore. i don't think it's so much social contract as such. we have a social contract that

says a state government can tell you what to do. the change in relationship between the individual judgment. >> would you like to repond? >> counselor -- >> i was thinking he was fellow member of the court. >> with all due respect, the contract was made to establish the federal government. state government existed before we establish the union. the central element is as madison indicated in the federalist papers is that the powers of the congress, the federal congress dell lennateed and eliminated. it didn't change anything about the relationship between citizen and state government. that's why. if you have federal government intruding at the level of the state government, that is all powerful. it can change the relationship entirely. that's why so much is at stake. it was understood that the commerce clause that madison understood it as a small provision in the federal

constitution. he never imagined it would be used as it was ever since the new deal. to allow the federal government to do anything it wants. that's why everything hinges on this. can it or not? the court will decide. >> panel, we have to step aside, but next up, the friday lightning round. ok, guys-- what's next ? chocolate lemonade ? susie's lemonade... the movie. or... we make it pink ! with these 4g lte tablets, you can do business at lightning-fast spes.

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every week, viewers vote for your choice online in the friday lightning round poll. this week, the keystone x.l. pipeline won with 44% of the vote. the president went to oklahoma to say he wants to build southern leg from oklahoma to the gulf of mexico of the keystone oil pipeline, but not the northern leg which would

connect the oil field, the tar fields of canada to the united states. what does this show about how vulnerable he feels on the decision to block keystone? two, do you think he will persuade the american voters? >> there is more support for drilling in the south. he feels as though they have been behind on the issue they have to clean up for it. this is a damage control thing he is doing with that. >> do you think it works, chuck? >> he will not carry oklahoma. i'm confident about that. but he might hold himself out with the labor unions. >> it's marginal. >> as obama said in the speech on algae, the american people aren't stupid. here he goes to oklahoma to announce he the approval of the pipeline. the leg of which he approved does not require his approval. second, it's a pipeline from nowhere.

but it carries air. people understand this is for show. a way to say i was against the keystone before i was in favor of it. >> the second topic, i came in and in the lead was charles krauthammer's choice. we expect that was going to be it. but there was a late faltering by charles. and the keystone pipeline passed him. i'll get slammed so hard for teasing him about this. to remind folk what is this is about, this is what eric bernstrom said wednesday talking about the pivot from primary campaign to general election. here it is. >> everything changes. like etch-a-sketch, shake it up and start all over again. >> charles, what is the reaction to losing the lead as the day went on, falling behind keystone and what is

the question to ask about the etch-a-sketch? >> that is what happens when you refuse to engage in negative campaign. i take the high road and look at what the opponents do. i accept it with the grace of gingrich and santorum. where were we? >> what is your question about the etch-a-sketch? >> the correct answer is huge. if there is a knock on romney that people on the left and right seem to think is true is he is a man to recreate himself and doesn't have a core. here is romney director of communications who comes out to give the perfect analogy. etch-a-sketch. shake and remake. wake up and you are a new candidate. the worst possible way to describe your candidate. romney is presidency, if he can overcome the staff. >> erin? >> the larger problem is for the media.

i think, because we focus on this for an entire week. what have we heard from mitt romney, from journalists about his reaction to what the president says in his news conference on super tuesday when he was complaining that republicans are beating the drums of war with iran? that is what we need to focus on. instead we spent a week on etch-a-sketch. >> what is more dangerous? etch after h-sketch or rick santorum saying we'd be better off with obama than romney? >> the etch-a-sketch. you can picture people showing up at rally and waving the red etch-a-sketch. i read in the paper that the sales are booming at the moment. >> up 3,000%. finally, the growing furor over the shooting death of that unarmed black teenager in florida, trevon martin was a neighborhood watch volunteer. saying he didn't want to comment on the merits of the

case, president obama weighed in. watch. >> my main message is to the parents of trevon martin. you know if i had a son he'd look like trevon. and, you know, i think they are right to expect that all of us as americans are going to take this with the seriousness that deserves and get to the bottom of what happened. >> chuck, what is your take on this case? >> very rare for the president to address race in such personal terms. he did it because this is really struck a chord across the country, especially with young people. in schools all across the country. a lot of kids picture themselves wearing the hoodie at the age of 17. >> erin? >> it was personal. i agree with that but it was personal for him. he talks often about his daughters, when he thinks about the cases like this. it was personal for him.

that's why he wanted to weigh in. >> one oddity in the story. george zimmerman, the alleged shooter is a man with a white father and peruvian mother. as hispanic as barack obama is black. yet, you don't see it in the coverage. part of that is political correctness. people don't want that to get in the way of the main conventional narrative. of oppression and victimization of african-americans historically so at the hands of whites. it didn't happen in that case. it's odd that the coverage has been so restrained or misleading about this. >> that is it for the panel. stay tuned to learn about a new environmental problem you will now have to worry about. [ male announcer this is the network --

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